Wielding a warped sense of humor and more instruments than most five-person bands, Damon Gough of Badly Drawn Boy has built his "keep 'em guessing" career on indie pop so brilliant and rich it could be …

Leaping off magazine spreads and TV screens with golden hair and chocolate brown eyes, Jessica Simpson is a born pop star with the hooks to match her looks. Top 40 junkies, get your fix: the slingshot  …

Spoon works post-punk's sharp edges into a modern mesh of pop hooks and off-kilter indie rock. And while they've honed their attack with peerless precision over the last decade and a half, they never s …

Part of Spoon's appeal is that no matter how big they become, they'll always be underground upstarts at heart. They love tweaking expectations by tossing leftfield touches into their tunes. Early in th …

Forget the full-on robot disguises for a second; Daft Punk's joyous pillaging of progressive house, Eurodisco, electro, filtered funk, and sweat-swabbed techno is pleasurable enough on its own, transce …

The angelic choir heavily featured in "I'll Be Missing You" is a fitting tribute to the late Notorious B.I.G., whose passing was commemorated in the song. The P. Diddy tune is more or less a reworking  …

While most acts resorted to angst and angular guitars to project the aggro overtones of alternative rock in the '90s, Ben Folds pelted ex-lovers ("Song for the Dumped") and indie elitists ("Underground …

Josh Groban's rise to fame may have been meteoric, but the man's no blink-and-you-miss-it shooting star - it's his genuine talent and taste that's kept him at the top of the classical-pop universe. Wit …

When your arrival on the world stage causes the sort of sensation that Josh Groban's did, it's only natural that big names are gonna be interested in the hot new kid on the block. So, along with stando …